Implausible Deniability

Am Thinker ^ | Oct 27, 2017 | Clarice Feldman

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The aftermath of the 2016 election has revealed the criminality of the Democrats, the perfidy of the Deep State, the corruption of the press, and the bought and paid for motives of the scribblers in the conservative pundit class. And Trump won despite all that. In many ways it reminds me of a Soviet operation called The Trust. If you missed Reilly -- Ace of Spies, Edward Jay Epstein describes how the Soviets created a fake anti-Soviet group called The Trust and used it to nab dissidents plotting to overthrow the regime.

Fusion GPS’ dossier was a replay of a classic Soviet disinformation campaign.

"The Trust was not an anti-Soviet organization, it only imitated one." In reality, he continued, the Trust was a creature of the Soviet secret police. Its purpose was not to overthrow Communism, but to manipulate real anti-communist organizations into misleading the West.

In much the same way, I believe, Russian agents working for the Clintons and the DNC through Fusion GPS and its hireling Christopher Steele provided fake information in a dossier which the FBI (headed by James Comey) and the Department of Justice (headed by Loretta Lynch ) used to craft an affidavit to obtain a FISA warrant authorizing electronic surveillance on people connected, however tangentially, to the Trump campaign. This, after previous such warrants had -- and this is unusual -- been turned down by the FISA court. Then-president Obama allowed the surveilled communications to be widely circulated throughout the government, so that the names of the targets caught up in the surveillance and their communications were thus widely available for leaking, and were leaked.

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[Qiviut]

Great article - thanks!

[Garvin]

He puts it all in perspective.

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He puts it all in perspective.

He? I think Clarice would disagree :)

[Garvin]

She, my error.

[jazusamo]

Absolutely! Clarice consistently does great work.

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[caww]

Bravo! Bravo! Excellent read!....

[Just mythoughts]

Rick Wilson was media shopping the 4-Chan junk in January 2016. The ‘never-Trumpers’ were plotting and planning replacement candidates when it appeared Trump would win the nomination... Why did Ted Cruz talk like he knew something big at the GOP convention... The Republicans started this mess and some of them were still in the dirt scooping right up to and past election day.

That Mormon from Utah, the ‘never-Trumpers’ stuck in as a fail safe candidate to replace Trump, is a former CIA spook...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_McMullin